Dear friend! I cannot find my notes on our meeting here. 202 And there is no need for them. The meeting had a consultative character, and you two*, of course, remember better than I do what took place. I cannot reconstruct officially what happened, and could not even with fragmentary notes written exclusively for myself, sometimes not in words but in signs. If something serious needs to be decided, write us a definite proposal, an official inquiry (to the editorial office), and we will answer at once. But if there is no occasion for it yet, then we have, after all, reached complete agreement on general tactics.

I was very, very pleased to learn that you have moved the Organization Committee business 203 ahead quickly and composed it from six members. I am surprised only that you coopted others before formal constitution, before the invitation to the Bund? After all, it was planned the other way around? This, however, is not so very important if you are convinced that no inconveniences can arise.

Be firmer with the Bund! Write to the foreign office as strictly as possible as well (to the Bund and "Rabochee Delo"), reducing the function of the foreign office to such a minimum as cannot in any case acquire significance. The technical aspects of the congress you can, of course, entrust to special delegates from among you or to special agents of yours: do not pass on—

* Refers to V. P. Krasnukha and P. A. Krasikov. Editor.